yellow cake
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Cassiopeia uncurled, grabbed her feather duster, and joined the celebratory parade around the nursery as the children chanted the names of every kind of cake they could think of: “White cake, yellow cake, angel cake, Gypsy cake, Black Forest cake...”
From Literature
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“Beautiful women unsettle and disrupt. This isn’t yellow cake uranium.”
From Los Angeles Times
This year we—minus two, with Mom working—had to settle for homemade yellow cake smothered in chocolate frosting.
From Literature
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Ohanian, 40, further contributed to those nerves by pranking his wife into thinking that he put together a “basic” reveal: He opted to have Williams cut into a yellow cake rather than one that revealed a pink or blue hue on the inside.
From Los Angeles Times
I knew this was going to take a lot of practice, and I needed to make sure I used a yellow cake recipe that would be sure to wow my family.
From Seattle Times
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